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The number of important medical discoveries at Harvard Medical School since the 1970s has more than quadrupled when compared to the previous 150 years. The pace of medical technology advancement clips along quite rapidly. Here are nine recent or pending discoveries and what they mean for the future of medicine. 1. 3D Medical Imaging It’s no secret that the medical community faces a shortage of physicians, sometimes due to the intense, difficult nature of medical school. 3D4Medical hopes to make the medical school experience more practical and possible with 3D recordings of moving muscles, tissue and organs to help students see in a less-theoretical model of how different systems of the body actually work through a suite of apps. EchoPixel is another 3D platform that takes a patient’s anatomy from various already-existing scanning methods (i.e., MRI, X-ray), renders it in an augmented reality format viewable with special glasses, and makes it accessible for medical pro...